Jürgen Prochnow

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Jürgen Prochnow (born 10 June 1941) is a German-American actor. His international breakthrough was his portrayal of the good-hearted and sympathetic U-boat Commander "Der Alte" ("Old Man") in the 1981 war film Das Boot.

He is also known for his roles in The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975), Dune (1984), Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), In the Mouth of Madness (1994), The English Patient (1996), Air Force One (1997), The Da Vinci Code (2006), and played Sergei Bazhaev on the eighth season of 24 (2010). He is a Goldene Kamera, Bavarian Film Awards, and Bambi Award winner.

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Known For

The Da Vinci Code

André Vernet

Dune

Duke Leto Atreides

Air Force One

Alexander Radek

Hitman: Agent 47

Tobias

Beverly Hills Cop II

Maxwell Dent

Judge Dredd

Judge Griffin

Das Boot

Captain Lieutenant 'Der Alte'

The English Patient

Major Muller

Full Filmography

Year	Title	Role
2025	A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep' MOVIE	Self
2023	The Last Rifleman MOVIE	Friedrich Mueller
2023	U-96, The True Story of 'Das Boot' MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2021	The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making Dune MOVIE	Self (voice) (archive footage)
2021	Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story MOVIE	Self - Das Boot Actor
2020	The old Man and the Pain in the Neck MOVIE	Wilhelm Schürmann
2020	A Handful of Water MOVIE	Konrad
2019	A Hidden Life MOVIE	Major Schlegel
2019	Real Men MOVIE	Himself - Actor
2017	Damascus Cover MOVIE	Franz Ludin
2017	The Final Journey MOVIE	Eduard
2017	Old Agent Men MOVIE	Kern
2016	Half Brothers MOVIE	Herr Dryser
2016	The Dark Side of the Moon MOVIE	Pius Ott
2015	Quizduell-Olymp TV	Self
2015	Remember MOVIE	Rudy Kurlander #4
2015	Hitman: Agent 47 MOVIE	Tobias
2015	Wer weiß denn sowas? TV	Self
2014	Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2014	Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces MOVIE	Woodsman
2013	Die Kinder meiner Tochter MOVIE	Ernst Blessing
2013	Ohne Gnade MOVIE	Helmutchen
2013	Company of Heroes MOVIE	Luca Gruenewald
2013	Ein schmaler Grat MOVIE	Uwe Wolfmann
2012	Die Schuld der Erben MOVIE	Kurt Hanson
2010	Amigo - Dead on Arrival MOVIE	Fredo Kovacs
2010	Sinners and Saints MOVIE	Mr. Rhykin
2010	Spear of Destiny MOVIE	Baron Von Haan
2009	Oko ve zdi MOVIE	Self
2009	NCIS: Los Angeles TV	Mattias Draeger
2008	Merlin and the War of the Dragons MOVIE	The Mage
2008	Europas Erbe - Die großen Dramatiker TV	Self
2008	La conjura de El Escorial MOVIE	Espinosa
2007	Schroeder's Wonderful World MOVIE	John Gregory
2007	Ohne einander MOVIE	Ernest
2007	Nanking MOVIE	John Rabe
2007	Primeval MOVIE	Jacob Krieg
2006	Beerfest MOVIE	Baron Wolfgang von Wolfhausen
2006	The Celestine Prophecy MOVIE	Jensen
2006	The Da Vinci Code MOVIE	André Vernet
2006	Chain Reaction MOVIE	Police Man
2006	Semperopernball TV	Self
2005	Rilke Projekt: Zwischen Tag Und Traum (Live 2005) MOVIE	Self
2005	See Arnold Run MOVIE	Arnold Schwarzenegger
2005	Julie, chevalier de Maupin MOVIE	Le baron Hengen
2004	Los Angeles Plays Itself MOVIE	Michael Kogan in The Replacement Killers (archive footage)
2003	The Poet MOVIE	Vashon
2003	Baltic Storm MOVIE	Erik Westermark
2003	House of the Dead MOVIE	Kirk
2003	Nachtschicht TV	Friedrich Otto Winterstein
2003	Heart of America MOVIE	Harold Lewis
2002	Davon stirbt man nicht MOVIE	Everett Burns
2001	Dark Asylum MOVIE	Dr. Fallon
2001	24 TV	Sergei Bazhaev
2001	Ripper: Letter from Hell MOVIE	Detective Kelso
2001	Gunblast Vodka MOVIE	Sacha Roublev
2001	Last Run MOVIE	Andrus Bukarin
2001	The Elite MOVIE	Avi
2001	Jack the Dog MOVIE	Klaus
2000	Final Ascent MOVIE	Paul
2000	The Last Stop MOVIE	Fritz
2000	Padre Pio: Miracle Man TV	Visitatore
2000	Poison MOVIE	Carl Krieger
1999	The Millennium Disaster - Computer Crash 2000 MOVIE	Hans Hagemann
1999	Volle Kanne TV	Self
1999	Heaven's Fire MOVIE	Quentin Darby
1999	Der blonde Affe MOVIE	Jan Vleuten
1999	Esther MOVIE	Haman
1999	Wing Commander MOVIE	Cdr. Paul Gerald
1999	The Fall MOVIE	József Kovács
1999	Beckmann TV	Self
1999	The Directors TV	Self
1998	From China with Love MOVIE	Paul Konen
1998	Human Bomb MOVIE	Gerhardt Dach
1998	The Replacement Killers MOVIE	Michael Kogan
1998	The Johannes B. Kerner Show TV	Self
1997	Air Force One MOVIE	Alexander Radek
1997	Leute heute TV	Self
1997	DNA MOVIE	Dr. Carl Wessinger
1997	The Cry of Love MOVIE	Holger
1996	The English Patient MOVIE	Major Muller
1996	The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century TV	Kaiser Wilhelm II (voice)
1996	On Dangerous Ground MOVIE	Carl Morgan
1996	Alisea and the Dream Prince TV	Kurdok
1995	Fesseln MOVIE	Günther
1995	Tödliche Wahl MOVIE	Alex Bronner
1995	Tödliche Wahl TV	Alex Bronner
1995	Judge Dredd MOVIE	Judge Griffin
1995	Stallone's Law: The Making of 'Judge Dredd' MOVIE	Himself
1995	In the Mouth of Madness MOVIE	Sutter Cane
1994	The Other Side of the Law MOVIE	Simon McQuarie
1994	Guns of Honor MOVIE	Jack Neumann
1994	Trigger Fast MOVIE	Jack Neumann
1994	Lie Down with Lions MOVIE	Marteau
1993	Die Wildnis MOVIE	Brenner
1993	The Last Border MOVIE	Duke
1993	Der Fall Lucona MOVIE	Jorunalist Strasser
1993	The Fire Next Time TV	Larry Richter
1993	Body of Evidence MOVIE	Dr. Alan Paley
1992	Jewels TV	Joachim von Mannheim
1992	Interceptor MOVIE	Phillips
1992	Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me MOVIE	Woodsman
1992	Hurricane Smith MOVIE	Charlie Dowd
1991	Robin Hood MOVIE	Sir Miles Folcanet
1991	DAS! TV	Self
1990	The Man Inside MOVIE	Günter Wallraff
1990	The Schoolmaster MOVIE	Rozinsky
1990	Kill Cruise MOVIE	The Skipper
1990	The Fourth War MOVIE	Col. Valachev
1989	A Dry White Season MOVIE	Captain Stolz
1988	The Seventh Sign MOVIE	David Bannon
1987	Beverly Hills Cop II MOVIE	Maxwell Dent
1987	Devil's Paradise MOVIE	Escher
1987	Terminus MOVIE	Sir / Doctor / Yellow Truck's Driver
1986	Killing Cars MOVIE	Ralph Korda
1985	Murder: By Reason of Insanity MOVIE	Adam Berwid
1985	The Cop & the Girl MOVIE	Der Bulle
1985	Blitz MOVIE	Ralph Korda
1985	Das Boot TV	Der Alte
1984	Dune MOVIE	Duke Leto Atreides
1984	Forbidden MOVIE	Fritz Friedländer
1984	Goldene Kamera TV	Self
1983	The Keep MOVIE	Captain Klaus Woermann
1983	Love is Forever MOVIE	General Siegfried Kaplan
1983	Destination Dune MOVIE	Self
1982	War and Peace MOVIE	Kevin
1981	Das Boot: Behind The Scenes MOVIE	Self
1981	Das Boot MOVIE	Captain Lieutenant 'Der Alte'
1981	A Case For Two TV	KHK Max Gerber
1981	Wetten, dass..? TV	Self
1980	So weit das Auge reicht MOVIE	Alexander Späh
1979	Bavarian Film Awards TV	Self
1979	Kotte MOVIE	Günther Kotte
1979	NDR Talk Show TV	Self
1977	Operation Ganymed MOVIE	Oss
1977	The Consequence MOVIE	Martin Kurath
1976	Hans in Luck MOVIE	Hans Schmidtke
1976	Schaurige Geschichten TV	Piet
1976	Kölner Treff TV	Self
1976	Shirin's Wedding MOVIE	Aida
1975	The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum MOVIE	Ludwig Götten
1974	The Brutalization of Franz Blum MOVIE	Franz Blum
1974	One or the Other of Us MOVIE	Bernd Ziegenhals
1973	Tenderness of the Wolves MOVIE	Hehler
1972	Auf Befehl erschossen MOVIE	Franz Sass
1972	Knast MOVIE	Roloff
1972	The Merchant of Four Seasons MOVIE	Man at the Meeting Table
1972	Zoff MOVIE	Joky
1970	Unternehmer MOVIE	Arnold
1970	Scene of the Crime TV	Dieter Brodschella
1970	Scene of the Crime TV	Klaus Linder
1970	Scene of the Crime TV	Hans Rodenburg
1970	Scene of the Crime TV	Kesting
1948	Bambi TV	Self
	The Guardian Angel MOVIE	Albert Klosser

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